Malachi 1 (KJV) - Bible Truth Library

if then.From this verse to ch. 2:9, the prophet reproves the priests and people for sacrificing the refuse of beasts; and denounces punishment against the former for not teaching the people their duty in this respect.

Ex. 4:22‑23• ²²And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the Lord, Israel is my son, even my firstborn:
²³And I say unto thee, Let my son go, that he may serve me: and if thou refuse to let him go, behold, I will slay thy son, even thy firstborn. (Ex. 4:22‑23)

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Isa. 1:2• ²Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the Lord hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me. (Isa. 1:2)

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Isa. 64:8• ⁸But now, O Lord, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand. (Isa. 64:8)

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Jer. 31:9• ⁹They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn. (Jer. 31:9)

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Matt. 6:9,14‑15• ⁹After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
¹⁴For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:
¹⁵But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. (Matt. 6:9,14‑15)

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Luke 6:36,46• ³⁶Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful.
⁴⁶And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say? (Luke 6:36,46)

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1 Peter 1:17• ¹⁷And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear: (1 Peter 1:17)

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Matt. 7:21• ²¹Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. (Matt. 7:21)

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Luke 6:46• ⁴⁶And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say? (Luke 6:46)

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John 13:13‑17• ¹³Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am.
¹⁴If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another's feet.
¹⁵For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.
¹⁶Verily, verily, I say unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord; neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him.
¹⁷If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them. (John 13:13‑17)

O priests.

Mal. 2:8• ⁸But ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble at the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith the Lord of hosts. (Mal. 2:8)

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1 Sam. 2:28‑30• ²⁸And did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to offer upon mine altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me? and did I give unto the house of thy father all the offerings made by fire of the children of Israel?
²⁹Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at mine offering, which I have commanded in my habitation; and honorest thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of Israel my people?
³⁰Wherefore the Lord God of Israel saith, I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me for ever: but now the Lord saith, Be it far from me; for them that honor me I will honor, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed. (1 Sam. 2:28‑30)

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Jer. 5:30‑31• ³⁰A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land;
³¹The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof? (Jer. 5:30‑31)

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Jer. 23:11• ¹¹For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, saith the Lord. (Jer. 23:11)

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Ezek. 22:26• ²⁶Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they showed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them. (Ezek. 22:26)

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Hos. 4:6• ⁶My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children. (Hos. 4:6)

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Hos. 5:1• ¹Hear ye this, O priests; and hearken, ye house of Israel; and give ye ear, O house of the king; for judgment is toward you, because ye have been a snare on Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor. (Hos. 5:1)

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Mal. 2:14‑17• ¹⁴Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the Lord hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.
¹⁵And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.
¹⁶For the Lord, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away: for one covereth violence with his garment, saith the Lord of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.
¹⁷Ye have wearied the Lord with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? When ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of the Lord, and he delighteth in them; or, Where is the God of judgment? (Mal. 2:14‑17)

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Mal. 3:7‑8,13‑14• ⁷Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the Lord of hosts. But ye said, Wherein shall we return?
⁸Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.
¹³Your words have been stout against me, saith the Lord. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee?
¹⁴Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the Lord of hosts? (Mal. 3:7‑8,13‑14)

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Jer. 2:21‑22• ²¹Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?
²²For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord God. (Jer. 2:21‑22)

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Hos. 12:8• ⁸And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out substance: in all my labors they shall find none iniquity in me that were sin. (Hos. 12:8)

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Luke 10:29• ²⁹But he, willing to justify himself, said unto Jesus, And who is my neighbor? (Luke 10:29)

• The believer can never measure his true state before God unless he does it by the standard of the position in which he by grace has been set. It is a common error to deduce our place from our state. (“Malachi 1” by E. Dennett)

• The state of the priests, even as now the state of those who presumptuously take the place of such, as well as those who are really “pastors and teachers,” is always more or less the state of the people. (“Malachi 1” by E. Dennett)

• The response to this charge brings out a characteristic of the whole book. “Wherein,” say they, “have we despised thy name?” (See Mal. 1:2,6-7; Mal. 3:7-8,13.) Not only were they pursuing a course of forgetfulness of God, and dishonoring His name in all that they did, but, what was still worse, they were also ignorant of their actual condition, and in reply to the charges brought against them, they say, almost in surprise, “Wherein” have we done this or that? (“Malachi 1” by E. Dennett)

J. N. Darby Translation

A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith Jehovah of hosts unto you, priests, that despise my name. But ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?